On Sat, 4 May 2024, Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel wrote:
Hello Steve,
Some of the code's pretty braindead, too. Especially what looks to
have come from IBM. I mean...house styles vary, but Algolization is
still just hideous-looking. But it goes beyond that - think some of
the utilities are going to need major rewrites. I'm thinking of
writing a new front-end around the FDISK code, but I haven't really
been able to take the code and sort through everything to figure out
what parts I'll need in order for FDISK to...fdisk (and don't know
enough about int13, MBR or FAT to do it my damnself). I was looking
into D-Flat, but my brain melted - might have to write bespoke UI code.
does the Microsoft FDISK provide a feature you are missing in Free
FDISK, or is it because of the license thing you mentioned, or for pure
fun? Writing a new frontend code for Microsoft FDISK would be a massive
effort. This would probably take as long as a clean sheet design, and
then it will still not handle large disks, FAT-32 and so on...
If you want to deal with partition managers, there is also the option of
contributing to Free FDISK ;)
Greetings, Bernd
B and C (learning exercise + not really a fan of GPL).
I did go in figuring it might require a gutting, if only because the code
is written in a mutant dialect of C that was partially algolized, and has
limitations I'd need to lift.
-uso.
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